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Estimating catchment evaporation and runoff using MODIS leaf area index and the Penman-Monteith equation Y. Q. Zhang,1 F. H. S. Chiew,1 L. Zhang,1 R. Leuning,2 and H. A. Cleugh2 Received 1 October 2007; revised 19 May 2008; accepted 31 July 2008; published 25 October 2008. [1] This paper shows the feasibility of using steady state water balances of gauged catchments to calibrate a spatially explicit evaporation model and then applying this to estimate mean annual runoff for 120 gauged catchments in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) of Australia from 2001 to 2005. We used remotely sensed leaf area